New Beginnings Family Birth Care at Saint Francis Hospital
New Beginnings Family Birth Care offers innovative, state-of-the-art care in a comfortable, nurturing, family friendly environment. The New Beginnings model provides a unique birthing experience for each mother and her family.
- 14 labor/delivery/recovery rooms
- 30 postpartum beds
- 26-bassinet well-baby nursery
- 28-bassinet Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- 2 Cesarean section delivery rooms
- State-of-the-art antepartum diagnostic center
The experienced staff works to create a positive and supportive environment. Among the features of the Saint Francis birth experience:
- Fathers or other support persons are invited to share in the labor experience
- Unlimited visiting for partners
- Sibling visiting in the postpartum rooms
- Rooming in for newborns
- Sibling classes to prepare siblings for baby's arrival
- Childbirth education classes
- Lactation consultant
For infants with medical problems, there is a special care nursery on site and access to the Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit within the pavilion. The unit offers parenting rooms and feeding rooms where parents can visit with their infants.
Click here for information about Prenatal Classes and Support Groups
We are proud to partner with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and The United Way, Hartford.
About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program for residents of Hartford, CT that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth until they begin school, no matter their family’s income.
After launching in 1995, the program grew quickly. First books were only distributed to children living in Sevier County, Tennessee where Dolly grew up. It became such a success that in 2000 a national replication effort was underway. By 2003, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library had mailed one million books. It would prove to be the first of many millions of books sent to children around the world.
Dolly’s home state of Tennessee pledged to pursue statewide coverage in 2004 and global expansion was on the horizon. After the United States, the program launched in Canada in 2006 followed by the United Kingdom in 2007, Australia in 2013 and the Republic of Ireland in 2019.
If you are interested in learning more about this program or would like to sign up, please visit www.imaginationlibrary.com/usa